Month: February 2012

sorry it’s been so long since i’ve updated the blog. we’ve been busier than a one armed paper hanger around here. robb and i are both working long hours with exciting new work projects and henry never holds still for a second. not ever. not one second. ever. really, monkey business’s world has totally changed. …

this just sucks. i have an intense visceral response to my crying child and yet i have determined to let him cry himself to sleep. for his own good. for all our good. so that he can get to and stay asleep and then sleep deeply for lengthy periods of time. the tiny brain needs …

…went well! last night we let him cry in increasing intervals (3 mins, 5 mins, 10 mins) and at the appointed time we’d go in and rub his back, give him his pacifier, unhook him from the bars of the crib where he had spider- monkeyed himself on to get a better screeching platform…and it …

we’re 8 hours into our 19 minutes of letting henry cry himself to sleep using the ‘ferber method.’ each minute feels like forever as we watch the clock not move. will keep you posted. so far? he probably needs a cocktail as much as i do.

i got to daycare to pick henry up today and he was hanging out on the floor with a little girl who was born on the exact same day that he was! and, miraculously, he didn’t look like too much of a moose next to her. they were at about the same developmental stage, too. …

he decided he did not wish to wear the sticker this time, so he’s holding his 8 month sticker in his little paw. this is just before he ate the eight.…eights months old today! he’s getting through this nasty RSV bug and back mostly to his normal self. we’ll keep him off the rest of …

it’s been quite a week. i was out of the state for some training and spent my first night away from monkin. everything went well. he and robb had fun together and managed just fine. and i got to watch joan rivers and kelly osbourne talk SAG fashion disasters and drop terrible one-liners while lying …

Sarah Zimmerman

Sarah is a writer and a Physician Assistant, mom of two, wife of one, and co-owner of a vegan ice cream business. She aims to keep laughing, finding the funny in the hard stuff of life.
She is the third place winner of the 2018 Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest: https://marktwainhouse.org/royal-nonesuch